Write Every Day: Day 18

A busy day, but another 300 words before bed. I really feel like I'm on a roll here.

Day 18 Tally:
china_shop

Day 17 Tally:
china_shop sanguinity silveradept luzula regshoe badly_knitted sylvanwitch nafs shadaras kate cornerofmadness yasaman lferion carenejeans the_siobhan

( previous days )

Let me know if I missed you and feel free to jump in any time.

see the sun turn green from my penthouse window

( Questions of Days )

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Problems only goths have: losing clothes whenever I do laundry because every single thing in the laundry basket is black. I'm missing a bunch of socks and I'm pretty sure they accidentally got folded into my bedsheets.

Guess I'll find them next time I make the bed.

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I crossed sorting out the "medicine cabinet" off my list - it's actually a dresser drawer where we just toss things we don't have an immediate need for or where we have bought more than one container of something.

Things I discovered in the process.

•     A pack of nicotine gum that expired two years ago
•     One of those truck-stop energy shots that expired three years ago
•     A pack of nicotine patches that expired four years ago
•     A pack of allergy meds that expired five years ago
•     A bottle of ear-drops that expired six years ago
•     A pack of famotidine tablets that expired in 2007
•     A prescription jar of cortisol cream from 2002.
•     Three packs of sharps
•     And a partridge in a pear tree

Something suggests I should do this more often.

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We got another air quality warning today, but I went outside and the air didn't smell like a campfire, so I took the risk of sitting on the patio for a while.

I read this article recently about how Ontario is having trouble keeping experienced fire fighters because the bill that restricts public employee's pay includes fire fighters and so people are saying "Fuck this, I can have a job where I'm not living in a tent for a month while I risk my life for shitty pay."

And here's the thing, we have so many fires going on in this country right now that the federal government is shipping people in from other countries to help. I have seen videos of South Africans arriving in Alberta. Spanish and Portuguese fire fighters are in Quebec. There are French and American teams in northern Ontario.

So let me get this straight, the provincial government cuts the funding to the firefighting program, cuts the pay of firefighters, cancels the carbon tax, sells large portions of the green belt to developers, cancels green energy programs, and builds a new fucking highway that we don't need right through our core farm country - and then federal money has to be used to fly people in from other countries to fight fires exacerbated by climate change?

How the fuck does this make any kind of sense?